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You go to the men's room and the same moment you push the door, someone from the other side pulls it and your push effort is wasted and you nearly bump into the other person (just now happened).

You are anxiously waiting for a call from your loved one and the same moment you pick the receiver your loved one starts talking. There is no ring at all and you are surprised and relieved at the same time. All your anger vanishes and you start laughing.

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All your anger vanishes and you start laughing.



Why anger ?
 
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Originally posted by Raghav Sam:
You go to the men's room and the same moment you push the door, someone from the other side pulls it and your push effort is wasted and you nearly bump into the other person (just now happened).



Exactly (I mean exectly) the same thing happened in my offices restroom.I was inside and my manager was outside.Worst part is ,a day before he met with an accident and broke his leg and I pulled the door with all my strength that he got into the room and fell down and started screaming.
He is a good person and did not take this personally.
 
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When I was perhaps 8 years old, one day at school I entered the boy's washroom in the traditional 8-year-old way -- by running towards and jumping at the door, feet first. Unfortunately for me, the school's gym teacher was coming out of the room at just the same time. Surprisingly, he was not knocked unconscious (well, perhaps not too surprisingly, as he was an old-school gym teacher and had an Australopithicene brow ridge, which may have protected him) but the enormous hollow thwocking sound of door on skull was probably heard throughout the whole school

It turns out he was not a nice guy and did not take it well.
 
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I have a scar in my eyebrow from a bathroom door. Bad memories. Lots of blood. For an 8 year old.
 
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I have scraped my knee bad but no bathroom door incidents so far.
 
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While urinating, I heard the call of God and decided to open the door to my heart to Jesus. There was no blood.
 
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About doors. What about people desperately trying to get on the train at the last second, and getting crushed by the closing doors. Very interesting to watch from the inside of the train. "He's coming fast, no no, not going to make it, nooo...."

I've seen a scary one on TV. It was a south-corea footage. A mother trying to get on the train with her baby car. The baby car got stuck between the doors, and although the doors were not closed, the train surprisingly started to run ! Fortunately, the mother managed to put her baby safely down, and she went away with a few bruises.

I pulled the door with all my strength


You should learn how to open doors
 
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Originally posted by John Meyers:
Why anger ?



Angry at not having called sooner. Happens many a time when you know the other person could have called and yet did not call or take their own time to call and it suddenly happens when you least expect. Then you are relieved!
 
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Originally posted by Satou kurinosuke:


You should learn how to open doors



Learnt !
 
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Once all of my friends were travelling in a bus to college. Two of my friends were standing on the footboard facing each other and one other friend was standing inside the bus near the footboard.

Suddenly the friend who was inside the bus came hurriedly down towards the stairs to view something outside. But the friends who were standing on the foodboard thought that he wanted to get down from the bus as it was moving a bit slow. And so they simultaneously gave way for the person coming down in a great pace where the friend who was coming down did not have any balance and went out of the bus and fell on the pavement .
 
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Sometimes, this also happens. You are walking on a footpath and the person from the opposite side goes towards his left side and you go to your right side and next he goes to his right side and you go to your left side. This happens for quite some time before either of you stop or proceed to the other extreme!
 
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This one time at band camp ... no, just early morning practice ... we had two lines of people marching towards each other and the director shouted "Pass right shoulders!" which meant step left a bit so your right nearly touches the other person's right. Instead all 120 of us stumbled to a stop and said "Huh? Wha?" and generally looked stupid. We called that out to each other in the hallways for years.
 
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